XVni PREFACE. 



Zoologique de France ; and for the names of 

 the Gulls and Terns I have entirely followed 

 Mr. Howard Saunders's papers on those bh-ds 

 published in the ' Proceedings ' of our own Zoolo- 

 gical Society, for permission to use which, and fo.i 

 other assistance, — especially in egg-hunting, — I 

 have to give him my best thanks. 



As French is so much spoken in Guernsey and 

 the other Islands included in my district, I have 

 (wherever I have been able to ascertain it) given 

 the French name of each bird, as it may be better 

 known to my Guernsey readers than either the 

 English or the scientific name. I have also, where 

 there is one and I have been able to ascertain it, 

 mentioned the local name in the course of my notes 

 on each bird. 



It now only remains to give my best thanks 

 to the various friends who have assisted me, 

 especially to Mr. MacCulloch, who, though he 

 says he is no naturalist, has supplied me with 

 various very interesting notes, which he has taken 

 from time to time of ornithological events which have 

 occurred in Guernsey, and from which I have 

 drawn rather largely ; and I have, also, again to 

 thank him for the interesting accounts he has 

 given me of the various changes — agricultural 

 and otherwise — which have taken place during 

 his memory, and which may have had some 



